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All’s nearly well that ends well
These days you would find a fair sprinkling of Muslim players in every team, but in India their presence has shrunk.
Jawed Naqvi
Of good, bad and clever banias
The writer is Dawn’s correspondent in Delhi.
THERE are banias and banias. It’s a caste and a vocation...
There’s no need to be alarmed
A strong signal has gone from several Indian states against Modi’s tightening noose around their freedoms.
Arundhati Roy tells a fractured story by becoming everything
The story may stun Arundhati Roy’s critics into silence, or provoke even more anger.
Arundhati Roy’s new book of flower-paste and poetry
NEW DELHI: The embargo was for June 6, but the scrum to review Arundhati Roy’s new book seemed set on Thursday to...
Terror of the witches’ prophecy
There are no witches, of course, only humans playing their roles while blaming it on the supernatural.
Parched before the arriving rains
T.S. Eliot and Arundhati Roy gave us two months of the calendar year — April and May — to ponder.
The complexion of a new culture
How was Tulsidas to ever know that one day avid champions of Rama would have a foolish complex about being dark-skinned?
China invites India to join One-Belt-One-Road project
As close neighbours, China and India could be natural partners in connectivity and the OBOR: envoy.
Is the left falling into BJP’s trap?
Indian Marxists, like their comrades elsewhere, are a threatened species. The BJP
is out to swallow their two
Televised myth of a Modi wave
Veteran BJP leader L.K. Advani had described the spine of the Indian media aptly. “Indira Gandhi had asked them to bend.
Erdogan urges India to hold talks with Pakistan
Turkish president says resolving the Kashmir dispute will contribute tremendously to peace.
As Faiz would exhort his friends
Having diagnosed the ailment, the Indian opposition needs to get down to the business at hand.
Indian civil society group warns of losing ‘legitimacy’ in Kashmir
An erosion of faith in democratic processes may eventually threaten the state's legitimacy itself, the group warned.
The anomalous rise of Mr Kejriwal
Unlike the flashy Trump, Kejriwal is a middle-class family man, happy with his vegetarian meal and cough syrup.
India to slow down on visas for Pakistanis over Jadhav row
NEW DELHI: India is quietly moving ahead with visa curbs for Pakistanis, the Indian Express said on Friday, ...
Kasuri brushes off protests against his Delhi visit
Ex-foreign minister booed and told to go home by protesters at his lecture on India-Pakistan peace prospects.
India to approach Mamnoon over Jadhav’s execution
A former diplomat says trial procedure adopted by Pakistan consistent with international practices
Will the real Rahul stand up?
Hindutva is not about banning beef and targeting ‘love jihad’. It is more insidious than that.
After poking China in the eye, India still hopes to be permanent member of UN Security Council
If India does become a new permanent member of the UNSC with veto rights, then it will have achieved no ordinary feat.